The probe surrounding the arrest of former and now detained president Rodrigo Roa Duterte by the senate committee of foreign relations headed by senator Maria Imelda Josefa Remedios “Imee” Romualdez Marcos-Manotoc who happens to be the sister of the incumbent magical president. The explications given by the police, chiefly, Police General Nicolas Deloso Torre III since the start of the senate committee hearings had consistently been contested by the lady senator who chairs the committee of foreign relations posing as counsel for the former and now detained president. It appears that the discussion is repetitive as the senate committee on foreign relations chairperson insisted on her own interpretation of the law, rules and the circumstances.
As had been explained by the arresting officers, there indeed was a plan to arrest the former and now detained president upon his return to the country. The arrest of any suspect has really to be planned in accordance with legal procedures. Verily, arresting a suspect could not be left to any chances as the subject of the arrest may put resistance or even exert force against the arresting officers. The suspect may even be armed that may put the arresting officers’ lives in danger. Time and again, there had been many instances that the arresting officers’ lives were put in peril.
What is seen in the video is taken as basis by the investigating senators. The lady chairperson of the committee on foreign relations kept on repeatedly questioning why the arresting police general exerted force and handcuffed former executive secretary, lawyer Salvador “Bingbong” Campo Medialdea did not obstruct the arresting police officers from arresting the former and now detained president. The police general politely explained that the former executive secretary was actually obstructing the police officers from performing their job of arresting the former and now detained president.
The lady senator retorted that as she sees in the video, the former executive secretary was just sitting beside the former and now detained president. She continued her narrative that such act is not obstruction to her view as mere sitting is not a violation of any law. The police general explained that the former executive secretary sitting in between him and the former and now detained president is effectively obstructing the police officers from performing their task to arrest the president. That forced him to handcuff the former executive secretary who eventually cooperated by accompanying the former and now detained president to the private jet bound for the Hague, Netherlands. Such action is deemed by the police general as within his authority and in accordance with law.
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